St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-08
HE'S ABLETO STANDIT
The London Tory Organ Try
ing to Ridicule the Grand
Old Man.
A Proffer From the Pope to
Arbitrate Regarding Irish
Affairs.
Little Probability That the
ParnelliteS Would Consent
to the Plan.
One Hundred and Sixteen Vic
tins Of the Exeter Horror
Buried Yesterday.
BY Cable to the Globe.

BY Cable to the Globe.
LONDON, Sept. THE Tory press I'M
mercifully poke fun at the letter of the
Philadelphia committee to Mr.. Glad
stone inviting the eX-premier to be
present at the centennial celebration of
the adoption of the constitution of the
United States and as though by prear-
rangement ring the changes on the
phrase, 1.-The triumph of centripetal over
centrifugal force in politics." which is
only one of the many original forms of
expression contained in the letter.
The Conservative papers assert with
perfect unanimity that the assumption
of the committee that Mr.. Gladstone
could by any possibility represent Eng
land and her institutions is as absurd
and untenable as is Mr.. GladStone'S
programme to disrupt the union. Had
the Philadelphia committee desired the
presence of a representative of extreme
and English sentiment, one
paper says, its members could
not have gone far astray in soliciting
Mr.. GladStone'S attendance, and it is
gratifying to observe that the eX-premier.
has still remaining, despite the influence
of his new associations, that quality of
honor which impelS man to refuse to
place himself in a false position before
the world, and endeavOr to appear as
that which he is not. 1t is rumOred that
the vatican has intimated its willingness
to undertake the task of mediating be-
tween the government and the leaders
of the Irish party for the final settle
ment of the Irish question on the lines
of moderate measure of home rule,
and it is also said that such proposal
would find favor in the minds of the
lberal-unioniStS as a whole, large
number of Tories and not small pOr-
ton of the followers of Mr.. Gladstone.
Whether the project would be satisfac-
tory to
THE PARNELLITES,
the most of whom are committed to a
policy of absolute control of purely
Irish affairs, is not stated; but the prob
abilities are that they could easily be
persuaded to be guided by the maxim
that half loaf is better than no bread,
and accept the pope's offer of mediation.
The project is understood to be the re-
suit of Mgr. PerSicO'S mission to Ire
land, and if it should be carried out to
successful issue, would greatly
strengthen the vatican's chances of re-
storing full diplomatic relations with
England. If his holiness could thus
finally relieve the government from the
harassment of the Irish question the
privilege of sending papal nuncio to
London and receiving in return an Eng
lish ambassador at the vatican would
seem to be but small compensation for
the service rendered.
THE RELIEF FUND
for the sufferers by the Exeter theater
fire has reached sum exceeding $500
and is rapidly increasing. The mana
gers of the London theaterS are striving
hard to overcome the damaging effect of
the disaster upon the attendance at the
metropolitan theaters, and are publish
ing statements showing the abundant
facilities for exits possessed by their re-
spective houses and the marvelously
short time in which they can be emptied
without reSOrting to unusual haste and
with no danger of choking up passage
ways. The government will Immediately
introduce bill in the house of commons
prescribing such regulations for thea
tiers and public halls as may be neces-
sary, in addition to the present laws, to
prevent repetition of the Exc
ter horror, and an attempt
will be made to lay aside
all other business until it shall be
passed. The funeral of seventy-six
identified and forty unknown victims of
the Exeter theater fire took place in that
tOWu IhO VI tIlG D0Ul6S
was conducted publicly. Business was
suspended and the streets, although
filled with people, were perfectly silent
as the procession of the dead passed on
the way to the grave.
NOTES FROM ABROAD.
The report that Prince Ferdinand is
about to abandon his throne and return
to Hungary is without foundation. Ar
rests of real and suspected conspirators
against his authority continue in Sofia.
and the prolongation of the state of
siege for an indefinite period is assured.
The British Trades Unions congress.
in session at Swansea, passed resolu-
tions to-day advocating the institution
of land reform, beginning with the i'm
position of such a tax upon land as will
eventually force it into possession of the
people.
An army correspondent has written
letter to the Times which that paper
publishes, contending that Mr.. Glad
stone, in his article in the Nineteenth
Century on election facts of 1872 re-
lies solely upon gain of four seats in
fourteen months to support his argu-
ment. To this Mr.. Gladstone replies
tha this argument was founded upOn
changes. of votes polled alike in the
cases of seats won and lost. The
writer, he says, lodges the issue.